For example, the weekly digest provides the upcoming calendar alerts, which the real-time emailer does not. The weekly mailer also makes it easy to scan one email to see what you might have missed that week. By contrast, the real-time mailer makes it possible for you to get late-breaking weekend news (posted after the weekly mailer goes out), to easily forward a single story to a friend or neighbor, and to get an alert as soon as we post something.

So consider if it makes the most sense for you to sign up for both. You can unsubscribe at any time from either of these mailers.